Annie+Balnoka

On November 15, 1912, 33-year-old Fannie Scheiner died at County Hospital in Chicago after an abortion perpetrated that day by midwife Annie Balnoka.

Balnoka was arrested and held by the Coroner on November 24, and indicted by a Grand Jury on December 15, but the case never went to trial.

Balnoka was born around 1869 in Austria, and immigrated to the US in 1907.